Genomic convergence of genome-wide investigations for complex traits

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 514-519

  Kitsios, Georgios D ^a,b   Zintzaras, Elias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Association; Complex traits; Genome scan; Genome wide; Genomic convergence; Linkage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DATABASES, GENETIC; DISEASE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 68549092835     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2009.00533.x     Document Type: Article

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